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How the financialization of housing hurts renters and boosts profits

by Philip Moscovitch June 15, 2021January 23, 2023

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The Lafarge Brookfield cement plant. You can see a grey building, three large grey silos, and a red and white striped smokestack. In front of it is a building with a concrete sign with the word lafarge on it, and a sign attached above that has the number 50 made of the flag designs of the four Atlantic provinces.

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A potent human carcinogen found in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust is making its way onto Nova Scotia’s farm fields

by Linda Pannozzo June 15, 2021October 20, 2022

Lobster boat with a Mi'kmaq flag moving through the waters of Pictou Harbour with the Northern Pulp mill in the background, and white plumes coming from the mill stacks into a grey sky.

Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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How the financialization of housing hurts renters and boosts profits

A potent human carcinogen found in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust is making its way onto Nova Scotia’s farm fields

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

Internal documents show Nova Scotia’s Liberal government assumed Northern Pulp links to Asia Pulp & Paper, links Paper Excellence execs deny

Halifax Fire deputy chief pleads with residents to stop illegal burns, as new fires blaze in HRM

IBC: Holds on new insurance policies common on purchase of homes within wildfire radius

Tantallon wildfire 50% contained; new fire in Shelburne County, while others out of control

New fire, more evacuations in Shelburne County as other fires continue to blaze out of control